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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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The Subjectivities of "Included" Students with Disabilities in Schools
Whitburn, Ben
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v38 n4 p485-497 2017
The contextual precept of this paper is to re-theorise inclusive education beyond technical rational solutions to the "problem" of disability. Drawing on Foucauldian and critical disability theories, I make the case for the analysis of inclusive schooling through the lens of students' "included" subjectivities--notwithstanding the presence of diagnosed special educational needs. I contend that there is a theoretical mismatch between humanist inclusive schooling and the posthumanist position of disability: an epistemic fissure that impedes inclusive development. Through analysis of the voices of students with disabilities from two different schooling contexts in Australia and Spain, I demonstrate how fragmented virtues of normalcy suffused their subjectivities. I conclude the paper with a discussion of the roles that DisHuman disability studies might play in recasting inclusive schooling by troubling normative discourse.
Descriptors: Inclusion, Disabilities, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Barriers, Social Attitudes, Social Theories, Interviews, Normalization (Disabilities), Cultural Differences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; Spain
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